Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...replaced O'Neal with Allan Blair Kline, a prosperous Iowa hog farmer (who had managed well enough during the Depression to build a swimming pool on his farm). Kline damned controls, helped kill the Brannan Farm Plan and then helped Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson push a flexible price-support law through Congress this year. Last week at the Farm Bureau's annual convention at New York, President Kline announced he was resigning because of ill health. In this change of leadership, however, there would be no change of policy...
COTTON-PRICE PROPS will probably be held at 90% of parity again next year, providing farmers vote to approve an 18.1 million-acre planting allotment as expected. Agriculture Secretary Benson has all but promised farmers that he will keep props high, although he could push them down to 82.5% under the new flexible price law. However, if farmers turn down acreage quotas in their vote this week, the props will automatically drop...
...managers set out to upset the business boom as soon as they took office in January 1953. The tightening of credit and increase in interest rates smothered a business boom." Furthermore, added Clark, the Administration should lower bank reserves, ease credit still more, thus give the economy "an extra push" back to 1953 levels...
...Time after time pioneer was instrumental in keeping Yale pressure in the offense zone. A key measure for every defenseman, is the time to know when to break back, and break back fast to stifle a two-or-more man down ice push...
...addition of the contested coat and tie rule, now strongly approved by the great majority of the Center, has helped make Dudley a likeable noon dining place for a daily average of fifty inter house students. The contest with house members has given Dudley a much needed push in its climb toward equal recognition...